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I think the bottom line is that all of these apps suck because of what the grand-grand-...-commenter said: it's much faster to pick up pen and paper, whereas apps take forever to launch and type things into by comparison. There's also the syncing problem and possibility of not having access to your to-dos on the desktop.

Also, what the hell is a card? After reading the word "card" for the 5th time, even after reading the few paragraphs below the main image, I still have no clue what on earth a card is. Like an app in webOS? Or is it a game of some kind? Apps and websites that invent their own names for existing concepts and seem to assume that you're silly for not having inborn knowledge of what they mean are frustrating.

If you liked it check out the Transformer Prime page:

http://eee.asus.com/eeepad/transformer-prime/features/

It starts off with a typical terrible "people you would never see use an Asus product" photo and quickly gets very cool.

Because you don't always know your code base very well. I almost always use vim but when a new large project comes along I've found no better way to read through it than with a mouse.

Is it? It's tough to say whether the wording was the problem in your case without seeing the site though. Was the link visibly clickable? Was it a button? What would happen if it was a button and it had a Living Social logo on it? Bold text calling out to click sounds more visible and enticing, but there are other ways to grab users' attention.

Yes, you can print an A3 sized sign to remind visitors to flush the toilet, bolding, italicizing and underlining the text to get their attention. Or you can make a clever doodle or an icon, and make it fit into the bathroom's interior design.

And what's with all the MASSIVE FONT?

Reminds me of Garbage's "Breaking Up The Girl": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFHmn22PkKU

and how it enjoys making the camera rig an active participant in the video.

As someone who never used Greplin, I'll focus on what I do like: I found the layout quite creative. The top images of the iPhone remain fully scaled to your browser width, which means the menu below is only revealed when you scroll down. Thus, no matter what the browser size, you're always only focusing on the photos and features of the service, until you scroll down. Quite clever.

Fascinating. I remember that comment very well, but have forgotten about it since reading it. Thanks the reminder.

This is amazing. I was just discussing this with a friend, and quitting Facebook was one of the first things we considered. Interesting coincidence.

As silly as it seems, I think there's tremendous power in that concept. For a lot of people Facebook is one of the few apps in use. Providing apps inside Facebook sounds like a great way to capture the audience Apple is missing out on.

Fascinating link, thank you!

Agreed. I came here wanting to say I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style. Technical details coupled with great entertaining writing? Count me in. I already read enough dry technical tumblrvomit as it is.

I thought it was part of who the author is. He doesn't strike me as a particularly serious person, so booing the security researched who has become a "star" of Black Hat in the eyes of the rest of the applauding audience sounds like a funny and friendly thing to do to me.

Not to be a downer, but those are fairly mediocre logos.

I appreciate and at least partially agree with your perspective, regardless of the pointless name calling.

Explainable action? I'm lost for words. Also I'm Russian.

Are we talking about the same Gnome 3? Mine has a thin toolbar for the clock, and all the other UI is hidden unless you mouse over the top left corner. It works extremely well on the comparatively small MacBook Pro 13", to the point that I'm now seeking the best linux distro to offer as close to vanilla Gnome 3 experience as possible.

I'm glad the issue is getting an increasing amount of attention. One has to keep in mind that at the end of the day, all the corporations care about is increasing their profits.

That is some of the ugliest UI I've seen since the Windows 3.1 days. Brings back memories of CD-ROM encyclopedias.

Exactly. Just because forgotusername values clean non-suggestive UIs doesn't mean everyone else does. If Google is to cater to the majority of their clients which they should, based on just how my non-technical friends and family enjoy Google Instant and auto-completion I'd say they've successfully solved their users' problem.

Not to say all of them. I personally don't make use of either features whatever but at least I can disable both!

Still, it's a feature you can disable. I'd love to be able to disable everything the Like buttons of the world do to unsuspecting visitors, but how?

The record industry analogy is brilliant. Major labels of the past were not unlike production lines. They weren't just management and promotion companies, but rather more like schools where promising resident talent was honed and music would be written for and played by most fitting artists. If one goes through hits of the 50-70s, they will find that the same songs by one label would often be performed by multiple artists, sometimes for years, before that final breakthrough performance would come along when the perfect match between the singer and the song would be found.

It was, then, a matter of knowing what to look for in new talent and finding ways to bring out their strengths through good and appropriate songwriting. People these days often complain about the quality of music being lower than it used to be, but the truth is that for every hit of the early times there would be many times the number of "duds" and just unsuccessful attempts that would either be mediocre songs or bad matchings between the artists and the records they perform.

IMO, despite even that, I still personally think records of the past are a lot more full of substance and soul than anything released today.

Add to that the difficult of using and discovering a web app. Apple, for instance, while embracing HTML5 as far justifying death of Flash goes, has made little visible effort to promote visibility of web apps. Some features of mobileSafari have been requested and missing for years (looking at you, contentEditable). That, and lack of an easy to browse web app store is what I would blame. Of course Aplle can't profit from webapps nearly as easily, so it does make sense.

I'm guessing he was excited because he knew very well that the majority of people at an Apple store have no idea what they really want to buy and need the salesperson's expertise. Probably the same reason that BestBuy hasn't been killed by Amazon yet.

That is the coolest thing I've ever come across.

It appears that hating something must mean that you produce arguments against it, however irrational. I'm with you, ajross.

I think for Williams, Dead Poets Society would be the first break of the mould.

Another example is Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I strapped myself for another grimace filled ride, but Jim absolutely shattered all my expectations and prejudices with his tenderness and onscreen chemistry with Kate Winslet.

... and then built them right back up again by starring in a series of inane flicks immediately after.

I think a lot of self-help books are dismissed by most people. I would love to know why.